Bentverb
simple past tense and past participle of bend
Hookedverb
simple past tense and past participle of hook
Bentadjective
(Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented
Hookedadjective
Having a sharp curve at the end; resembling a hook.
‘a hooked nose’;
Bentadjective
corrupt, dishonest
Hookedadjective
Addicted; unable to resist or cease doing.
‘He will never leave her because he is hooked on her chocolate chip cookies.’; ‘You only have to try heroin once to become hooked.’;
Bentadjective
Homosexual.
Hookedadjective
Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.
Bentadjective
Determined or insistent.
‘He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.’; ‘They were bent on mischief.’;
Hookedadjective
Provided with a hook or hooks.
Bentadjective
(Of a person) leading a life of crime.
Hookedadjective
curved down like an eagle's beak
Bentadjective
inaccurately aimed
‘That shot was so bent it left the pitch.’;
Hookedadjective
addicted to a drug
Bentadjective
Suffering from the bends
Bentadjective
(slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
‘Man, I am so bent right now!’;
Bentnoun
An inclination or talent.
‘He had a natural bent for painting.’;
Bentnoun
A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
‘His mind was of a technical bent.’;
Bentnoun
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
‘the bent of a bow’;
Bentnoun
A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
Bentnoun
Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
Bentnoun
(carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.
Bentnoun
Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
Bentnoun
Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
Bentnoun
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
Bentnoun
Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
Bentnoun
A grassy area, grassland.
Bentnoun
The old dried stalks of grasses.
Bent
imp. & p. p. of Bend.
Bentadjective
Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
Bentadjective
Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; - said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
Bentnoun
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
Bentnoun
A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
Bentnoun
A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
‘With a native bent did good pursue.’;
Bentnoun
Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
‘Bents and turns of the matter.’;
Bentnoun
A transverse frame of a framed structure.
Bentnoun
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
‘The full bent and stress of the soul.’;
Bentnoun
A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
‘His spear a bent, both stiff and strong.’;
Bentnoun
A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
Bentnoun
Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
‘Bowmen bickered upon the bent.’;
Bentnoun
a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way;
‘the set of his mind was obvious’;
Bentnoun
grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens
Bentnoun
a special way of doing something;
‘he had a bent for it’; ‘he had a special knack for getting into trouble’; ‘he couldn't get the hang of it’;
Bentadjective
altered from an originally straight condition;
‘a bent wire’;
Bentadjective
fixed in your purpose;
‘bent on going to the theater’; ‘dead set against intervening’; ‘out to win every event’;
Bentadjective
used of the back and knees; stooped;
‘on bended knee’; ‘with bent (or bended) back’;
Bentadjective
used especially of the head or upper back;
‘a bent head and sloping shoulders’;
Bentadjective
of metal e.g.;
‘bent nails’; ‘a car with a crumpled front end’; ‘dented fenders’;
